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  CVS on VMS

CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes
occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS.

The VMS port must be considered unpolished. Although previous versions
have been in use at one large site since about October, 1995, and the
port is believed to be quite usable, various VMS-specific quirks are
known and the port cannot be considered as mature as the ports to, say,
Windows NT or unix. As always, future progress of this port will depend
on volunteer and customer interest.

The VMS port is of the CVS client only. Or in other words, the port
implements the full set of CVS commands, but cannot access repositories
located on the local machine. The repository must live on another
machine (a Unix box) which runs a complete port of CVS.


    Where to get CVS for VMS

The OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM Version 4.0
<http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/freeware/cd.html> contains a
copy of the CVS source distribution together with a few notes about the
VMS port. The version is the 960925 snapshot, which is similar to but
not identical to the 1.9 release. If you have a reason to want to use
the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM, this might be useful, but for the most part
you may be better off getting a more recent source distribution
<source.html>.

The Cyclic download site at http://download.cyclic.com/pub/ contains
executables of various versions of CVS for both VAX and Alpha. Note that
with CVS 1.9 the "cvs login" command does not work on VMS 7.x. One
workaround is to run "cvs login" on a Unix box (or VMS 6.x box) and copy
over the .cvspass file.


    For more information

The CVS <http://www.free-vms.org/static/cvs/> page from the FreeVMS
project describes the use of CVS in that effort.

See the VMS section of Cyclic's Development of CVS: Portability
<dev-port.html> page for more information about the VMS port
particularly aimed at people who are interested in contributing to that
port.

[Cyclic Home] <http://www.cyclic.com/>

 
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